Hi all,
Just wanted to get peoples opinions on who is on the ball when it comes to shaping Quads on or near the Gold Coast. Am currently riding a Feral Dave performance quad and wanted some other options. Was on Simon Andersons site the other day and he was saying that what Stretch and Nathan Fletcher are doing is leading the pack in quad design and that where the thruster fin placement is fairly standard, the quad placement is all over the place. So, who shapes a good quad?

Murray Bourton is one of the best imo

Murray
Simon
DMS

All make great quads, depends on what kind of board you want really. What do you want? What are you riding? What do you want to change about it?

I personally prefer the idea of McKee quads. So why not have a look at what the man himself is shaping?

McKee's surf most like a thruster-lots of drive, both sets on the rail more like a twin-loose and skatey.
Twinzers are another option or something like this
nealpurchasedesigns.blogspot.com/2011/06/quartet.html#comment-form

With this set up you can use it as either a twinzer or "quartet" Deep double concaves or channels with a lot of vee down the guts will help control the skittishness if your board has a bit of width through the tail too.

This thing is sick!!
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150355821656866.371964.223664366865&type=1

Your newbie looks rather tasty too Legion.

that new quad of mine goes pretty sick to wouldnt mind putting some bonzer plugs in to get the pivot point a little further forward

Plugs are addictive Dave

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smicko said...

McKee's surf most like a thruster-lots of drive, both sets on the rail more like a twin-loose and skatey.
Twinzers are another option or something like this
nealpurchasedesigns.blogspot.com/2011/06/quartet.html#comment-form

With this set up you can use it as either a twinzer or "quartet" Deep double concaves or channels with a lot of vee down the guts will help control the skittishness if your board has a bit of width through the tail too.

This thing is sick!!
www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150355821656866.371964.223664366865&type=1

Your newbie looks rather tasty too Legion.
i know what your thinkin mick

Yes I'll be in this week sometime

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smicko said...

Your newbie looks rather tasty too Legion.

Yeah, only a week or so away now.

McKee is the Godfather of the modern quad. I was working with FCS when the quad came back to play. We handed out Bruces fin direction and position graphics and pretty much every shaping bay in Australia had them on the wall.

His concept is not having two sets of sides but more splitting the centre fin in half, the rear fins have 1/2 as much toe in and cant as the fronts and sit about 1/2 way from the centre to the normal fin position.

I speak with Bruce regularly, if anyone wants to contact him let me know.

Murray and DMS as above use the McKee set quad set up. I took Mr 3 and Mr 4 to lunch once, that was an interesting one for me.

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Legion said...

smicko said...

Your newbie looks rather tasty too Legion.

Yeah, only a week or so away now.

What one is it?

smicko's been doing detective work. I'll pm you, dogster.

Ummmmm no, micko's been reading the thread on realsurf about Josh's boards 'cos he's a compsand freak.

This has been great. The Bruce Mckee website is really interesting. I was actually thinking of Jack Knight to shape a quad but this has given me a lot more to think about. Cheers

Murray Bourton....am riding a Fat Bullet lately. I love it.

Been riding 7'9" this one for 4 years, have not ridden anything but a 4 fin in that time, this guy Kirk Bierke shapes good ones from 5'0" to 10'6", 4 fins go off in big boards

that wasabig pic hey, how d ya make em smaller?